Common errors in English

Note : 

Red = false

Blue = true

• Your good name 
• Your name 

Reason: No one has a bad name.

• Everybody have problems 
• Everybody has problems 

Reason: The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always singular and, therefore, they’re always used with a singular verb.

For example:

Nobody likes them
Everyone is coming with us
Everybody has a mobile nowadays

• Marriage anniversary 
• Wedding anniversary 

Reason: A wedding is an event or a ceremony, marriage is a state of a relationship.
Same as we don’t say “Happy Lifeday” in a place “Happy Birthday”

For example:
When is your wedding anniversary?

• I need to go to the home 
• I need to go home 

Reason: In this phrase “Go Home”, home is not a noun but an adverb.
Specifically, it is an adverb of place.
So, you don’t need a preposition like “to” prior to home.
We also do not use “to” before these words when it is used as an adverb, abroad, anywhere, downstairs, here, home, in, nowhere, out, outside, somewhere, there, underground, upstairs, etc.

• I have good relations with my father 
• I have a good relationship with my father 

Reason: In politics, countries can have good relations with each other.
With family and friends, we have good/bad relationships.

• I usually eat breakfast at 9 AM 
• I usually have breakfast at 9 AM 

Reason: You usually say you have breakfast, lunch, or dinner, not eat it.
We eat food.

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